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multi-hyphenate

multi-hyphenate is the alternative form of multihyphenate.

Meaning of multihyphenate

Noun

multihyphenate (plural multihyphenates)

  1. A person with a hyphenated profession e.g. singer-songwriter, actor-director, but especially a person with several such roles.
    • Interviewees, including the scientist Richard Sternberg, claim that questioning Darwinism led to their expulsion from the scientific fold […], while our genial audience surrogate, the actor and multihyphenate Ben Stein, nods sympathetically.2008 April 18, Jeannette Catsoulis, “Resentment Over Darwin Evolves Into a Documentary”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Forms of multi-hyphenate

pluralmulti-hyphenates

Questions about multi-hyphenate

What is multi-hyphenate the alternative form of?
Multi-hyphenate is the alternative form of multihyphenate.

Words near multi-hyphenate in the dictionary

  1. multi-grip bar
  2. multi-grip bars
  3. multi-history interpretation
  4. multi-hydrocarbon
  5. multi-hydrocarbons
  6. multi-hyphenate
  7. multi-infarct
  8. multi-infarcts
  9. multi-institution
  10. multi-institutional
  11. multi-instrumentalist

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Adapted from Wiktionary: multi-hyphenate (page history and authors); multihyphenate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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